Chapter 27: What is Su Erniu's fate? ...
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Jiang Lai stopped caring about what was happening in Shicheng and went home, while a storm was brewing in Shicheng.
Shi Cheng originally liked Jiang Lai (the original owner of the body), and his feelings for Su Erniu were only because she used the excuse of being seen naked by him while saving her. He only felt a sense of responsibility and not affection.
Today, Su Erniu lost her senses because she had lost her spatial ability. After Jiang Lai left, she was terrified by Shi Cheng's indifferent expression. Without thinking, she asked him if he was being so cold because Jiang Lai had told him about what happened that afternoon.
Shi Cheng hadn't said much to Jiang Lai at the time and was already feeling quite regretful. But then Su Erniu said something like that, which immediately made his mind race. If Su Erniu could say something like that, it meant that something must have happened that afternoon. It must have been something related to him, Jiang Lai, and Su Erniu herself, and it was very likely that she had done something bad, something that had a significant impact.
It has to be said that Shi Cheng's curiosity was piqued. Because he had a guess in mind, Shi Cheng deliberately acted very impatient when facing Su Erniu: "Does it matter what Jiang Lai said to me? Please move aside, I want to go home."
Su Erniu immediately misunderstood when she saw Shi Cheng's expression. She panicked and said, "I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to. I was so scared that I forgot I was swimming."
Su Erniu was also disturbed by the many things that happened that day; otherwise, she wouldn't have been tricked out of her by Shi Cheng's words.
Swimming? Does Su Erniu mean she can swim? Upon hearing the word "swimming," Shi Cheng immediately thought of his first meeting with Su Erniu.
Shi Cheng remembered that the first thing Jiang Lai did after being rescued was to slap Su Erniu across the face. Shi Cheng remembered that Jiang Lai said Su Erniu had dragged her into the water, and that after she tried to swim to shore, Su Erniu held her tightly and wouldn't let her go. Shi Cheng remembered that Jiang Lai's hands were bruised at the time. After returning, Jiang Lai even called the police, but later there was no direct evidence to prove it, and Su Erniu showed a very positive attitude in admitting her mistake, so the final result was that Su Erniu was only detained for two days.
From the beginning, Shi Cheng believed Jiang Lai, but there was indeed no evidence. In addition, Shi Cheng's thoughts were the same as most people at the time, because on the surface, this matter did not cause any real harm to Jiang Lai. After all, who could imagine something like being reborn after death?
"Is your ability to swim something to be ashamed of?" Shi Cheng asked expressionlessly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." Su Erniu never expected that Shi Cheng was bluffing her. However, it was absolutely impossible for someone like her to admit that what she did was wrong. So, all she kept repeating was, "I didn't mean to."
"You can leave now. I want to be alone." A storm raged in Shi Cheng's heart. He remembered Jiang Lai, and that she had indeed swum towards Jiang Lai that day, only that when they reached each other, Su Erniu and Jiang Lai had switched places.
There is no doubt that Shi Cheng likes Jiang Lai. When Su Erniu used the excuse of being seen and touched by him to ask the two of them to get married, he had a despicable thought: if he had rescued Jiang Lai at that time, he would definitely be happily preparing for the wedding.
Su Erniu naturally didn't want to leave. She was afraid that if she left, Shi Cheng would ignore her next time. However, Shi Cheng's thoughts were beyond her control. No matter how much Su Erniu thought about it, it was useless. Shi Cheng had no time to pay attention to her now and simply left.
So much happened in Shicheng today. First, he was beaten up by his enemy in the afternoon, but the other side had more people and he lost. He was beaten up pretty badly. Jiang Lai brought him back from training, and then he ran into Su Erniu. He discovered that she had set him up. No wonder he was in a bad mood.
Upon learning this, Shi Cheng's first reaction was actually relief. He could now refuse Su Erniu without any burden. Being forced to marry someone you don't like is something that would make anyone miserable.
Of course, what he doesn't know now is that something even more exciting is about to happen.
After returning home, Shi Cheng was just about to lie down on the bed and contemplate life when he was suddenly pulled into an unfamiliar place. Looking at the small world with visible boundaries, Shi Cheng began to question the meaning of life.
Why is it described as a small world? Because what he sees now are mountains, water, flowers, and grass, with lush vegetation on the land. He even sees fish swimming happily in a stream. If he couldn't see the boundaries of everything around him, he might think he had entered another world like Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring.
But everything before him was too amazing. Forgive his ignorance and limited knowledge; he had lived for over 20 years and had never known such a place existed.
This little world is about two acres in size, with a tiny, low hill covered with some trees. At the bottom of the hill is a wooden house, but not an ordinary one. It looks quite antique and definitely not an ordinary wooden house.
In front of the wooden house was a large, flat meadow, like a prairie, only this meadow was a little small.
Then came the boundary that Shi Cheng had mentioned earlier. The entire small world seemed to be enveloped by a milky white dome. Shi Cheng curiously touched it, and the dome felt quite soft, but it couldn't be moved outwards even a fraction of an inch.
Then the exciting part came: Shi Cheng went to the wooden house and found some gold and silver treasures inside. Shi Cheng saw that some of the gold ingots were exactly the same as the gold ingots that Su Erniu had given him to deal with.
That wasn't all. Shi Cheng also found Su Erniu's clothes in one of the rooms of the wooden house, including a piece of clothing that Shi Cheng had seen her wear before. If that piece of clothing was a stretch, there was also an earring that he had just seen Su Erniu wearing today, and a piece of fabric that was probably accidentally torn from the clothing.
This at least confirmed that Su Erniu had been to this place before. Then, what he found next confirmed that this place had once belonged to Su Erniu, because he found a medicine packet that had been soaked in water and a notebook.
The notebook contained some notes, though much of the content was illegible due to being soaked in water. However, some details slipped through the cracks. Shi Cheng pieced together the notes using the legible handwriting, guessing and combining them with what he knew, and arrived at some shocking information.
Shi Cheng gleaned some information from the notebook through a combination of guesswork and deduction. For instance, Su Erniu was reborn, she was originally paired with Ye Anguo, Jiang Lai was his wife, and he would become the richest man in the country in the future.
Based on the literal meaning of the word "rebirth," Shi Cheng roughly guessed what it meant, which was most likely to mean being reborn from the dead.
If it were up to him, he would most likely be a successful person in the future, just as Su Erniu wrote. Although Shi Cheng couldn't imagine how he would become the richest man in the country, he would believe it for the time being.
However, if we take Su Erniu's rebirth and his future status as the richest man in the country as true, then some of Su Erniu's previous actions make sense. In the future that Su Erniu knew he was like that, it was because Su Erniu planned to scheme against him in this way.
Otherwise, Shi Cheng would never have imagined that he possessed such charm that Su Erniu would scheme against him in every way possible, even going so far as to give him such a large sum of money, all in order to marry him smoothly.
Keep in mind that's 500 yuan. If managed properly, it could buy you a decent job from someone else. It's a secure job that you can do for a lifetime and pass on to the next generation.
The thought that becoming the richest man in the country might actually be true energized Shi Cheng. Given the current communist situation, if he were to become the richest man in the country, there would definitely be significant changes in the future. Perhaps individuals would be allowed to engage in business; otherwise, how could someone become the richest man in the country?
However, after figuring this out, Shi Cheng discovered that Su Erniu was even more vicious than he had imagined. Originally, Shi Cheng thought that what Jiang Lai said about Su Erniu forcibly dragging her in the water and preventing her from leaving, almost causing Jiang Lai to drown, was already vicious enough. He didn't expect that even the previous fall into the water was not an accident.
Just because Su Erniu had her eye on him, the so-called "richest man in the country," she deliberately plotted against him, breaking up his marriage with Jiang Lai and almost causing Jiang Lai to drown. Human life was completely unimportant to her.
Shi Cheng wanted to strangle Su Erniu as soon as he thought about it. If it weren't for her, he would have married Jiang Lai and become the richest man in the country, giving Jiang Lai a happy life. Su Erniu ruined his marriage.
But by then it was too late. Jiang Lai was already dating Ye Anguo, and he had been smitten by Su Erniu.
The truth is no longer important. What matters is that Su Erniu is so vicious that he absolutely cannot be with her. Shi Cheng decided to make things clear to Su Erniu tomorrow that he would never be with her under any circumstances.
However, Shi Cheng abandoned this idea a second later, because after careful consideration, he realized that it would not work at all. Since Su Erniu was determined to get involved with him, she would not give up so easily. Therefore, Shi Cheng had to think of a safer way, preferably to make Su Erniu give up on her own.
Thinking about the four words "the richest man in the country" written on Su Erniu's notebook, Shi Cheng had a plan in mind. Su Erniu wrote those four words so many times because she valued this, right? Fine, he would just let her think that he was not the person she thought he was.
First, Shi Cheng had to take a path that he would never have taken under his personality. He was someone who grew up in the city and had never experienced hardship. In the past, he would never have gone to the countryside as an educated youth.
But now, he has obtained a space that seems to have previously belonged to Su Erniu. Of course, Shi Cheng has no intention of returning it. Although he doesn't know where this thing came from or how to return it, it doesn't affect his desire not to return the space to Su Erniu. It's already a favor that Shi Cheng doesn't actively rob such a vicious person.
Moreover, Shi Cheng had a bold idea about this space. Although he didn't know when the policies would change, he could use the land in the space to accumulate his first pot of gold.
It just so happens that he can also solve the problem of Su Erniu. Although Shi Cheng doesn't know how he became rich, it doesn't matter. As long as he takes a path that he would never take, and acts like he has no ambition, Shi Cheng doesn't believe that someone as ambitious as Su Erniu can outlast him.
Tomorrow he will pretend to have been robbed and that all his money is gone. Then he will tell Su Erniu that he has offended someone and has to go to the countryside as an educated youth to avoid trouble, just to test Su Erniu's reaction.
The next day, before Shi Cheng even went to find Su Erniu, she came to his door herself, apologizing and crying. To others, Su Erniu probably seemed to be out of her mind, throwing away all self-respect and dignity for a man.
However, in Shi Cheng's eyes, all of this was evidence of Su Erniu's persistence towards him, which made Shi Cheng want to run away.
Just as he had expected, Su Erniu immediately objected when she heard that Shi Cheng was going to the countryside. Shi Cheng insisted that he had offended someone and would die if he didn't go to the countryside. Su Erniu still wanted to go with him, so Shi Cheng quickly said that he would transfer his current job as a warehouse keeper to her.
Shi Cheng gave Su Erniu two excuses: one was to make up for Su Erniu's loss of 500 yuan, and the other was to hope that Su Erniu would help him hold onto this job in the city so that he would have a place to go when he had the opportunity to return to the city in the future.
To be honest, Shi Cheng, as the male lead in this sweet romance novel, really has a good face. He easily fooled Su Erniu, making her genuinely believe that Shi Cheng had been won over by her.
Of course, things didn't go as she wished. The place Shi Cheng went to was the most difficult place. Forget about finding a chance to return to the city, Shi Cheng couldn't even get a meal there, and he wrote her letters every few days to play the victim.
At first, Su Erniu would save her salary and send it to Shi Cheng. After all, she was hoping that Shi Cheng would become successful and she would become the wife of the richest man. So even if she couldn't afford to eat, she would still send most of her salary to Shi Cheng.
But things changed over time, because Su Erniu no longer had her own space, and the money inside naturally had nothing to do with her anymore.
Moreover, after Su Erniu married Ye Anguo in her previous life, she went to join his army. At first, she stayed at home every day doing laundry and cooking. Later, after the reform and opening up, as Ye Anguo's work was promoted, Su Erniu hired people to help at home. She went out to play cards and go shopping every day and never worked. She had no ability to earn money.
Su Erniu had no special advantages. When Shi Cheng went to the countryside, he not only didn't give her money, but also embezzled her wages. After a while, Su Erniu, who had been pampered for decades, couldn't take it anymore.
Two months later, Shi Cheng received less money. Six months later, he would occasionally receive a package. Eight months later, the packages stopped. A year later, Su Erniu got married.
While Shi Cheng was far away, he wasn't as miserable as Su Erniu thought. Jiang Lai had taken gold and silver jewelry from Su Erniu's space and later specially sent it to Shi Cheng. Shi Cheng was living no worse than those in the city, and he was accumulating resources little by little.
Taking advantage of his spatial ability to remain undetected, Shi Cheng became a well-known black market seller in their city, quickly accumulating his first pot of gold.
Jiang Lai, who had orchestrated countless behind-the-scenes efforts, kept her accomplishments hidden and was very satisfied with the situation she had created.
Of course, all of that happened later. Back in 1970, Jiang Lai returned to work after her leave, but before she could even figure out how to resign, the Women's Federation, where she worked, gave her a very big "surprise."
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